Trenches Full of Poets Reading Series presents Bay Area poets hector son of hector, Josiah Luis Alderete, and soledad con carne, plus Long Beach's own Ra Avis, Page Against The Machine, 2714 East 4th Street, Long Beach, free, 7:00 pm PST (For more information, visit: www.facebook.com/events/3485995455036027)
Fourth Saturdays Poetry at the Claremont Library presents a reading by Nancy Lynée Woo, poet and teaching artist, and Ron Koertge, Pandora's Kitchen: Poems, award-winning poet and young adult novelist, Helen Renwick Library, 208 North Harvard Avenue, Claremont, free, 2:00 pm (www.claremontlibrary.org/monthly-poetry-readings.html)